Boswell the Biographer. George Mallory

Birkbeck Hill. 6 vols. Oxford, 1887¹ (1st edition 1791) Letters to Temple, reprint London, 1908¹ —— Life of, see Rogers, Fitzgerald, and Leask. Boswelliana, the Commonplace Book of James Boswell, London, Grampian Club, 1876 Burke, Edmund, Correspondence London, 1824 Burney, Miss, see D'Arblay. Campbell, Rev. Dr. Thomas, Diary London, 1854 Carlyle, Miscellanies London, 1872 Chatham, Earl of, Correspondence. 4 vols. London, 1838 Collection of Original Poems Edinburgh, 1763 Croker, Right Hon. John Wilson, Correspondence and Diaries. 3 vols. London, 1884 D'Arblay, Diary of Madame. Ed. Austin Dobson. 6 vols. London, 1904 —— Memoirs of Dr. Burney. 3 vols. London, 1832 Edinburgh, Traditions of 1869 Eldon, Lord Chancellor, Life of, by Horace Twiss. 3 vols. London, 1844 Fitzgerald, Percy, Life of Boswell London, 1891 Forbes, Sir William, Life of James Beattie London, 1806 Gentleman's Magazine Goldsmith, Life by James Prior. 2 vols. London, 1837 Gray, Life by Mason. 2 vols. London, 1807 Hawkins, Sir John, Life of Johnson London, 1787 —— Lætitia Matilda, Memoirs. 2 vols. London, 1824 Henley, W. E., Views and Reviews London, 1902 Hill, Dr. George Birkbeck, Life of Johnson. 6 vols. Oxford, 1887 —— Dr. Johnson, his Friends and Critics London, 1878 See also Johnson Club Papers. Holcroft, Thomas, Memoirs. 3 vols. London, 1816 Hume, David, Correspondence London, 1846 Ireland, S. W. H., The Confessions of W. H. Ireland London, 1805 Johnson, Dr. Samuel, Dictionary London, 1755 —— Lives of the Poets London, 1781 —— Journey to the Western Islands London, 1775 Johnson, Lionel, Post Liminium, Critical Essays London, 1911 Johnson Club Papers, by various hands London, 1899 Leask, W. K., James Boswell, Famous Scots Series. Edinburgh, 1896 London Magazine Macaulay, Critical and Historical Essays. 3 vols. London, 1843 Malone, Life of, Prior London, 1860 More, Hannah, Memoirs of. 4 vols. London, 1834 Nichols, John, Literary Anecdotes of the XVIIIth Century. 9 vols. London, 1812–15 —— Literary History of the XVIIIth Century. 8 vols. London, 1817–58 Piozzi, Mrs., Autobiography. 2 vols. London, 1861 —— Johnson's Letters to. 2 vols. London, 1788 —— Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, 2nd edition London, 1789 Raleigh, Sir Walter, Six Essays on Johnson Oxford, 1910 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, Life by Leslie and Taylor. 2 vols. London, 1865 Rogers, Rev. Charles, Memoir of Boswell, in Boswelliana Taylor, John, Records of My Life London, 1832 Trevelyan, Sir G. O., Life of Fox London, 1912 Walpole, Horace, Letters. 9 vols. London, 1861

1: All references are to this edition.

BOSWELL THE BIOGRAPHER

       Table of Contents

      CHAPTER I

       Table of Contents

      Boswell's 'Life of Johnson' is, as we all know, a unique biography; it has no rival. Its unchallenged supremacy has a special significance from the position which Johnson himself retains in literature. For as it must be admitted that his work has been but little read since his own day, and that by far his greatest performance, the compiling of a dictionary, has in its nature nothing of an artistic appeal, it may well be supposed that the literary men of this age find more to stir the imagination